README.md

AFNetworking

A delightful iOS networking library with NSOperations and block-based callbacks

There's a lot to be said for a networking library that you can wrap your head around. API design matters, too--code at its best is poetry, and should be designed to delight (but never surprise).

AFNetworking was lovingly crafted to make best use of our favorite parts of Apple's Foundation framework: NSOperation for managing multiple concurrent requests, NSURLRequest & NSHTTPURLResponse to encapsulate state, NSURLCache for performant and compliant cacheing behavior, and blocks to keep HTTP request / response handling code in a single logical unit in code.

If you're tired of massive libraries that try to do too much, if you've taken it upon yourself to roll your own hacky solution, if you want a library that actually makes iOS networking code kinda fun, try out AFNetworking.

Example Project

In order to demonstrate the power and flexibility of AFNetworking, we've included a small sample project, which asks for your current location and displays Gowalla spots nearby you. It uses AFHTTPOperation to load and parse the spots JSON, and AFImageRequestOperation to asynchronously load spot stamp images as you scroll.

Take a close look at AFGowallaAPIClient and AFImageRequest. These two classes provide convenience methods on top of the core AFNetworking classes. They provide higher-level methods for creating requests, and enqueueing them into an NSOperationQueue.

Dependencies

QHTTPOperation - Underneath AFHTTPOperation and AFImageRequestOperation is QHTTPOperation, an NSOperation subclass that manages NSURLConnection delegate methods. It's fairly robust, performant, and complete, so rather than roll our own, we built AFNetworking on top of this. We may build our own replacement if the need arises.

JSONKit - One of the conveniences built into AFHTTPOperation is automatic JSON parsing for HTTP requests that return content-type application/json. JSONKit is our preferred JSON parsing library, and is included in the example project.

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